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Sunday, June 29, 2014

Justina Pelletier freed from her Big Government forced confinement

Justina Pelletier freed from her Big Government forced confinement.

We all need to tell our politicians to support this new law being proposed. The pain and suffering inflicted upon this child was appalling and must never be allowed to happen again. This could happen to someone in your family.

Following
the incarceration of Justina Pelletier at state institutions for 16
months, four members of the United States House of Representatives are
set to introduce bipartisan legislation that will prohibit the federal
funding of medical experiments on wards of the state. Nicknamed
Justina’s Law the bill has been drawn up by two Democrats and two
Republicans following what Justina’s father, Lou Pelletier has labeled a
“mad psychiatric experiment” on his daughter.
Last night Justina, together with her parents Lou and Linda Pelletier
and her three sisters, Jennifer, Jessica and Julia, appeared live with
Mike Huckabee on his popular weekend talk show hosted by Fox News.
Huckabee is one of several media personalities who have championed
Justina’s rights over the past months in an endeavor to force the State
of Massachusetts (MA) to release her from the custody of the MA
Department of Children and Families (DCF) following a court order last
year. Lou Pellitier told the television audience, “It was all a mad
psychiatric experiment.” Justina, in turn said nobody should ever be
“put through” what she has been put through.

"They were so mean and nasty to me, and mean and terrible to my family also." Justina Pelletier

The Controversial Re-diagnosis of Justina Pelletier

The Pelletiers with Mike Huckabee. From left to right: Linda, Jennifer, Huckabee, Jessica, Lou, and in front: Justina and Julia

Justina was admitted to Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH),
Massachusetts in February last year after contracting flu that had made
her severely ill, dehydrated and unable to eat. Already diagnosed by
doctors at Tufts as having the very rare mitochondrial (mito) disease,
the then 14-year-old was re-diagnosed at BCH by doctors and
psychiatrists who insisted it was all in her head and that she was in
fact suffering from Somatoform Disorder.
When her parents refused to accept the new diagnosis and sign
approval of it, the hospital called in the DCF that took instant legal
action and had her declared a ward of the state. They also charged the
Pelletiers with “medical child abuse,” stating that they had
over-medicated their daughter, in spite of the fact that they were
following instructions from reputable doctors at the renowned Tufts
Medical Center. The hospital withdrew all her medication, refused to
allow her to continue at school, and would not permit her to even go to
church, in spite of the fact that the family is very religious.
From being an active figure skater in December 2012, she is now in a
wheelchair and cannot stand or walk without help. But after living a
life of hell for 16 months, Justina was carried back into the family
home in Connecticut on Wednesday last week by her father. At last they
were out of what Lou Pelletier described to Mike Huckabee last night as
“this Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole.”BCH Allowed to do Research on Wards of the State
In BCH’s The Clinical Investigation Policy and Procedure Manual that
details policy for wards of the state at the hospital, the first clause
states: “Children who are Wards of the state may be included in research
that presents minimal risk…” It also states: “Children who are Wards of
the state may be included in research that presents greater than
minimal risk with no prospect of direct benefit…”
There are additional clauses in the three-page document that Guardian
Liberty Voice has in its possession. This includes the need for
approval from the DCF Research Proposal Review Committee before research
may begin. Parents of children who are Wards are not consulted and
their permission for their children to be “guinea pigs” is not required.Justina’s Bill
The new bill that has been introduced, H.R. 4989, is aimed at all US
hospitals like Boston Children’s because of this very policy that allows
patients who are legally Wards of the State to receive whatever
treatment the hospital deems fit, or be part of a research program. The
four representatives (reps) behind the bill are Republicans Michele
Bachmann representing Minnesota and Tom Marino representing
Pennsylvania, and Democrats Karen Bass representing California and Jim
McDermott representing Washington State.
In a press release issued on Friday June 27, the four reps each made a statement:
• Rep. Michele Bachmann said it was their duty to ensure children were
“kept safe from harm while in the custody of their respective states.”
Not all families were willing to advocate on the children’s behalf like
the Pelletiers had done, she said. What happened to Justina Pelletier
was “unconscionable” and it was essential “to prevent it from ever
happening again.” The first step would be to remove federal funding that
would allow “such experimentation” in future.
• Rep. Tom Marino pointed out how “lucky” Justina Pelletier was to have
parents who had fought so hard for her and “leveraged the support of the
media and public officials.” He was supporting the other three reps, he
said, because it was vital that no child “should be subject to medical
experimentation under the legal designation as ward of the state.”
• Rep. Karen Bass said children should be cared for and loved and not
“experimented on.” The bill, she said would “make it clear that children
are blessings, not guinea pigs.”
• Rep. Jim McDermott highlighted the “strength and bravery” of Justina
Pellier and her family, calling it “a guidestar” for the nation. It was
their responsibility to make sure children were not the “subject of
risky medical experimentation,” he said and for this reason he was
working with the other three reps “to pass Justina’s law as quickly as
possible.”Highlights of the Huckabee Interview

Justina Pelletier talks to Mika Huckabee

Probably the biggest highlight of the Huckabee interview last night
was the declaration that Justina’s Law would “cut off any funding” to
organizations that experiment on children without their family’s
permission. This, Huckabee told Justina and his studio audience was
“what we hope for.”

Oh my gosh that is awesome. Justina Pelletier

It was not a long interview, but it was a happy one, unlike the many
that had gone before. First Mike Huckabee spoke to Justina. Holding her
hand tightly he asked her if she knew that so many people had been
praying for her. She simply nodded and said that it had made her “feel
so much better” and had helped her through the ordeal. Asked what the
hardest part had been, she said it was not being able to be with her
family, reminding the audience that she was only allowed one telephone
call per week, for 20 minutes, and strictly supervised by the DCF whose
officials would not allow her to talk about things that were meaningful
to her (for instance her health).
Justina Pelletier told Mike Huckabee that all she knew was that the
DCF had taken custody of her, and that her family could not talk to her
because they had been “over-medicalizing” her – “which they were not.”
She said it had been “very scary” because there was no-one on her side
and no-one at BCH believed what she said. They stopped all her
medication because “they all though I was faking this medical stuff.”
She said they also tried to insist that her condition was improving when
it was not.

"I love my family so much; I cannot believe I am home with them." Justina Pelletier

Linda Pelletier, Justina’s mother was next. She said she had worried
all day, every day not knowing what the medical team at BCH was doing to
her daughter. She discovered that Justina had had pneumonia on two
occasions when a doctor called her to report, “she (Justina) is really
was not doing well.” Linda still cannot fathom “why they did this; there
is no explanation.”
Lou Pelletier who earlier this year broke a gag order not to speak to
the press, taking his daughter’s plight to every media person and
television station willing to listen, said it had been like fighting a
“two-headed Goliath” in the form of Harvard Medical School, “the
wealthiest college in the land” and BCH which is owned by Harvard. “It
was all a mad psychiatric experiment. They said we were jeopardizing her
by not following the BCH protocol, which was to take her off all her
medications because what she had was all in her head.”
Lou Pelletier has said it before publicly, and he said it again,
“Diagnosis of Somatoform takes over a year to diagnose and it is one of
the most nebulous diagnoses there is.” Yet the doctors at BCH made this
controversial diagnosis 12 hours after she had arrived at the hospital,
and after only a 25-minute interview, he said. His explanation was that
Somatoform is the “pet project” or specialty at BCH. “They do it because
they can.”

"They had their own agenda; and that’s a sad thing." Lou Pelletier

And then the sisters had their turn. Jennifer, the oldest, said she
was “a bit shocked” when Justina telephoned suddenly last week to say
she was allowed to go home. “It is fantastic to have her back home where
she belongs.” Jessica, who as also been diagnosed with mito said she
was “beyond shocked.” Julia, the youngest of the four, who has happily
gone back to sharing a bedroom with Justina, said she was just longing
to get “back to normal.”
The best for Justina Pelletier is that she will be starting school
this week and is now able to spend time for her friends and beloved
family. “Later I will be ice figure skating again,” she told Huckabee
optimistically. Now aged just 16, the teenager who was part of a “mad
psychiatric experiment” stands to have Justina’s Law named after her to
ensure that nothing like this ever happens to an American citizen again.
The Pelletier family concedes it is going to be a long road, but it is
one they are happy to be going down it together.
By Penny Swift
SourcesMichele BachmannFox NewsDaily NewsThe Boston Globe